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“Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.”

Years Generations Dying Scene Conflict Hundred Function Islands Empires Decay Vitality Civilisation Roman Empire Barbarism

Book:Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples

Source: Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples

“There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.”

Art Whole Pain Language Attitude Quality Struggle Materials Conflict Function Paint Painter

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.”

Reality Written Conflict Essentials Function Importance Definitions Customs Warfare Harsh Hierarchy Defiance Chivalry Paramount British History Harsh Reality Armed Conflict

Author:Linda Colley

“Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.”

May Art Two Poetry Levels Effects Conflict Elements Perception Function Dues Tension Interpretation Works Of Art Breaking Down Clash

Author:Yuri Lotman

“During conflicts and tense situations, women often work in a more collaborative way, include a larger variety of viewpoints, and function more frequently outside traditional hierarchical means. Women leaders often take a consolidated and reconciliatory position in the society.”

Way Mean Situation Leader Position Conflict Function Traditional Variety Tense Viewpoints Woman Leader

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.”

“I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.”

“Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”

War Purpose Victory Conflict Function

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.”

Should Self Grows Imagination Self Esteem Conflict Concepts Shadow Function Esteem Duality Self Concept

Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words